The Lost Book of Nostradamus

By andrew gordon frew

The Vaticinia Michaelis Nostradami de Futuri Christi Vicarii ad Cesarem Filium D. I. A. Interprete (The Prophecies of Michel Nostradamus on The Future Vicars of Christ to Cesar His Son, As Expounded by Lord Abbot Joachim), or Vaticinia Nostradami (The Prophecies of Nostradamus) for short, is a collection of eighty watercolor images compiled as an illustrated codex. A version of the well-known Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus of the 13th-14th century, it was discovered in 1994 by the Italian journalists Enza Massa and Roberto Pinotti in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma (Central National Library) in Rome, Italy. The document can be found in the library under the title Fondo Vittorio Emanuele 307.

• Language: English
• Publisher: andrew gordon frew
• Release date: May 31, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386271321

andrew gordon frew

Andrew G Frew (b. 1961-) writer, publisher and author. Lives in London.

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"For five hundred years more one will keep count of him

Who was the ornament of his time:

Then suddenly great light will he give,

He who for this century will render them very satisfied."

Q 3:94

Nostradamus

Contents

Introduction

The Life of Nostradamus

Preface to the prophecies of Nostradamus

The Lost Book of Nostradamus

Epistle to Henry II

INTRODUCTION

Nostradamus, the very name has become an epitome of people's idea of prophecy. Many are convinced that his auguries are genuine and that he was a prophetic genius. He was of course a Jew by extraction who claimed to have a gift peculiar to his race that he could foretell the future. The prophecies within his centuries range from his day to the present so 90 per cent of them are already fulfilled but there remain at least forty or so obscure prophecies known as the occult or spiritual quatrains that appear to relate to our future. It is the intention of this work to elucidate on 'The Lost book of Nostradamus,' a work consisting of over 80 plates of prophetic figurines. The book whose origins is apparently from the Seer came to light in 1994 when a journalist discovered it in the Vatican library. The book was submitted to the Vatican as a gift by Cesar the son of Nostradamus in 1629, he later died from plague in 1630. These mysterious plates are a challenging area for scholarship. It goes without saying these are the very final prophecies of the savant. Here we find esoteric plates containing prophetic predictions, oracles pertaining to the Church and visions of a mysterious character known as the 'one male' whose focus is on raising the consciousness of man. At first sight there appears to be  no chronological order to the sequence of plates until we compare them to the chronology of events found in his Epistle to Henry 2nd . Here in the decipherment of his Epistle we find the means to unlocking the secrets within this coded book. Scholarship has not yet decided on whether these drawings are from the pen of Nostradamus since we have no evidence of his drawing ability. But his son Cesar did learn to draw and paint, Cesar would have been around 12 years of age when the drawings were made, possibly from his own hand. It is the proposition of this work that Cesar based the drawings on his fathers Epistle. For certain we know Les Propheties was written by the hand of Nostradamus. In 1547, he settled with his second wife in the small town of Salon, France (His first wife and two small children had died in the plague ravaging France in the early 1530's). It was here that he began work on his masterpiece Les Propheties a collection of 100 quatrains in ten books called centuries although century seven for some unknown mysterious reason contained 42 predictions. Contrary to the claims of theorists, no one has yet found a key that unlocks the secrets of this work.

INCANTATION OF THE LAW AGAINST INEPT CRITICS

Let those who read this verse consider it profoundly,

Let the profane and the ignorant herd keep away:

And far away all Astrologers, Idiots and Barbarians,

May he who does otherwise be subject to the sacred rite.

6Q100

THE LIFE OF NOSTRADAMUS

Michel de Nostredame was born at Saint – Remy-de-Provence, on the old style Julian calendar date, 14th December 1503. He was the son of Jacques de Nostredame and Reyniere de Saint-Remy. He had good family connections for his grandfather on his paternal mother's side, Jean-de-Remy had been a doctor to Renato, King of Jerusalem while his paternal grandfather on his father's side, Pierre de Nostredame had been a doctor to the Duke of Calabria. His father who earned his living as a merchant was also a local notary. He was born into a reasonable affluent Provençal Jewish family that had converted to Catholicism.

The conversion to Christianity was no doubt essential for being accepted in French high society. The young Nostredame was taken into the care of his erudite grandfathers who educated him privately until in 1522 he went and studied medicine at Montpellier university. Probably due to the influence of his early tutoring, he took up the study of the celestial sciences learning the rudiments of herbal medicine and the planetary effects on medical ailments.

His studies were interrupted by an out-break of the Bubonic plague:16th century France was prone to seasonal outbursts of Le charbon, the Black Death. This was his opportunity to put his medical skills into practice and he quickly gained a reputation for having the power to heal those who were suffering the ravages of the plague. By 1529 he had returned to complete his studies at Montpellier University where he received his doctorate in 1533. It was at this times he Latinised his name to Nostradamus.

The records show that he went to Agen in the same year where he befriended the eminent scholar, Jules Cesar Scaliger, a leading light of the French Renaissance, who persuaded him to stay with him in the area. It was here that he married his first wife Adriete de Loubejac who was possibly a relation, maybe the sister to the young wife of Scaliger who had married Andriete de Roues-Lobejac, a 16 year old-orphan.

The marital bliss was not to last however for after having two children he lost his small family to the plague and in so doing also lost the fickle friendship of Scaliger and the many high society clients he had introduced. For how good is a doctor that cannot save his own family? The documentation is sparse but around this time he was also summoned by the inquisitors for comments he made about a statue of the Virgin Mary. This may have been the impetus for him to set out on his travels, for the next eight years he travelled all around France and possibly reached Italy.

This period was the dark night of the soul of Nostradamus and with his knowledge of astrology he would have known the planetary cycles in effect. He was born with a triple conjunction in Cancer of Jupiter, Mars and Saturn in opposition to Mercury in Capricorn. Saturn is the governor of his Sun sign and also his planetary ruler. When Saturn completes its cycle roughly every 29 years it shows taking on responsibilities and around Saturn's first return he married.

The marriage is also shown by solar progression, the movement of his sun at one degree of Capricorn on to his Venus positioned at one degree of Aquarius took thirty years. This shows a love union. The movement of the planet Saturn into Leo at sixteen degrees after two years' marriage indicates his domestic grief for it squared his natal Moon in Scorpio.

While we are looking at the horoscope of Nostradamus, a few notes on his abilities should be made. The position of his Mercury between five and nine degrees of Capricorn (actual position is disputed) indicates he